How to refer to current Object genericaly in rules

Elmar · Post by **Elmar** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:31 am

I am curious on how to reference the current object with a keyword rather than a business object group or business object. Something like ThisObject or CurrentObject or wathever.

Is there a way to do this? Would make it easier in some situations to apply rules more generically.

Thanks.
Elmar

tford · Post by **tford** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:36 am

Elmar,

Are you referring to the instance prefix info on Page 66 of the User Guide?

Tom

tford · Post by **tford** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:39 am

Elmar,

After re-reading your post, you obviously understand the stuff re: prefixes & were asking a different question. I have not seen any info about using general object references like you requested.

Tom

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:25 pm

I am not sure I understand the question, though. Can you give an example?

Elmar · Post by **Elmar** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:25 pm

Sorry, I try to clarify this.

BO´s have specific attributes and all that but there are a lot of things that applied to all BO´s.

So what I am looking for is a generic Keyword that simply points to the CURRENT OBJECT in which a rule is executed in.

Instead of writing <BusinessObjectName> or <Prefix><BusinessObjectName> I would like to refer to the current Object in a generic way so that I can use that rule everywhere I want without having to change the BO or BO Group name.

Sample:
IF <someCondition> Then
PROTECT CURRENT_OBJECT FROM ALL EXCEPT Administrator AND System

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:32 am

No, there is no way to do this. But I really fail to see why you can't use the name of the specific object here rather than saying "CURRENT_OBJECT" - it will probably be longer to type anyway.

Elmar · Post by **Elmar** » Sun May 20, 2007 11:05 am

???
If you use generic keywords you can build generic rules that can be used everywhere. Very common concept in most programming languages.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Sun May 20, 2007 11:25 am

No, in Aware IM you can't have generic rules that run anywhere - rules are always attached to a particular object.

tford · Post by **tford** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:01 pm

I stumbled across a neat feature this morning: I was copying a rule from 1 object to the other & received the message: "Rename object from abc to xyz?" where abc was the object that I was copying from & xyz the object I was copying to.

This sure helps in making rule copying very slick!

Tom